To think this is a bit poor.

[Highlandfling80]

At the end of the year dds school does various Awards. Most do not involve a certificate but your name appears in the newsletter.
Well my Dd received 5 Awards but on 3 of these her name was spelt wrong.
Now I know this is trivial and the end of term is busy and the odd error is expected.
However to me this is a bit sloppy.
Aibu

Oh rubbish. You're way over invested.

Prove us wrong.

Oh dear 😄

I still have a degree certificate with my name spelt wrongly. That matters to me as I spent three years working hard to get that degree. However, the admin department of my university couldn't be bothered to correct it.
Luckily haven't ever been asked for sight of it by employers but it could be a problem one day. It really does matter.

Small point, but you have a spelling error in your second post and it's a two letter word!
Totally agree that the name should have been checked, but I did smile at the irony

Actually that was a rogue auto-correct that changed as I hit send. Still trying to get used to new phone. But fair enough we are all human. But I have now shown that the spelling errors in the names keep on happening.

Mn really should have an edit facility.

So say you were a stressed PA sending out 5 letters to your top client and you spelt their name wrong on 3 of those 5 letters? Would that be an excuse when the client took their business away because they felt their name matters.
Are we really bringing up our children to think that errors like this are OK in the workplace.

OP you are so unreasonable to suggest that the most important thing in the world is spelling your surname correctly. You shouldn't have marched into the school and reduced the staff to tears/set the classroom on fire/shit under a desk.

Oh no, you didn't do that, you just thought it was a bit sloppy, and won't be taking it any further. Probably quite reasonable.

I have a common name that has two common spellings. I suppose my spelling is slightly less common than the alternative. It's 50/50 whether people spell it right, and my work get it wrong quite frequently. Really I can't see the big deal! If it's an important document I ask for it to be corrected and people are generally very apologetic about it and do (eventually) get it sorted out. If it's not important why even bother correcting people?

Feel free, as I said, I don't care. In my opinion, it is deeply unreasonable to moan about something so minor when you don't know how much the responsible person has on. This issue affects nobody.

'Minor' is in the eye of the beholder, isn't it?

SPAG is a big problem in the UK - the emails I receive from ostensibly well-educated people are frequently peppered with SPAG breaches. Schools are at least partially responsible for this, aren't they?

I'm never angry to receive dubious school correspondence, but it does give me pause.

And combing through this thread to find errors is a bit silly. This is an internet forum, not a letter from a school to a parent.

I thought school was about preparing children for adult life and that includes the workplace. Well the school office is a workplace. So if they are a bit sloppy than they are not setting a good example.

I think it's worse when a school does this than when a business does. A business isn't trying to teach anyone how to spell. If you work in a school and kids have 'difficult' (which IME generally means non-English) names, and a large part of your job involves transcribing those names in various places, and you can't ever be arsed to check how those names are spelt, because they're 'difficult', it's pretty poor.

Very, very sloppy poor work on the behalf of the school and a bad example to set to the pupils. And if you're a school secretary defending that you really ought to be in a different job. Id love to see a teacher's reaction if a child dragged up similar excuses to poor homework, "I was really busy, I was trying to eat my lunch at the same time...",or even, "it doesn't count towards my degree so it doesn't matter". It wouldn't wash, would it!

I have a common name that has two common spellings. I suppose my spelling is slightly less common than the alternative. It's 50/50 whether people spell it right, and my work get it wrong quite frequently. Really I can't see the big deal! If it's an important document I ask for it to be corrected and people are generally very apologetic about it and do (eventually) get it sorted out. If it's not important why even bother correcting people?

I have an unusual surname, people misspell it all the time. I don't get upset, but I do take notice if, for example, it's a response to my own email address (which includes my correctly spelled surname, obviously).

My standards for my own writing are much higher, I would consider it unacceptably sloppy to make such an error. I check and double-check every single piece of written correspondence that I send to customers.

Apple: And this is a letter from a school to a parent, not a set of hospital notes. A spelling error or two is a very trivial matter.

I fail to see how the former is less important than the latter.

Or 4 if you count Dd2's.

Of course 'minor' is in the eye of the beholder, but if we all took the humo every time something we perceive as important and others thought was minor happened, and expected others to agree with us, the world would be a very miserable place. Has anyone been hurt? No. Has anyone lost time, opportunity or money? No. This is minor because, objectively speaking, it has no impact on anyone beyond what the OP chooses to feel - a bit of self-righteous indignation and that's about it.

OK, fine. Speaking bluntly, I think you've set the bar pretty low.

Plus the 2 the previous year. Plus the residential certificate and various play programs. All these errors add up to more than 2.